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A quiet revolution has taken place involving Australia’s prosecution of criminal offences under the Corporations and ASIC acts.

It’s the vibe: Federal Court’s new powers to hear criminal cases raise eyebrows

In the refined and polished corridors of the Federal Court, a quiet change has occurred that could flip financial crime prosecutions on their head.

  • Sarah Danckert

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US President-elect Donald Trump appears by video link at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York on Friday.

Trump escapes punishment in New York hush money case

The US president-elect has been slapped on the wrist with wet lettuce.

  • Farrah Tomazin
Keith Lees, the former partner of Meaghan Louise Rose was extradited from Sydney to Brisbane to appear in court charged with her murder.

Murder accused to spend weeks in custody before next court date

Keith Lees, 72, was extradited from NSW to Queensland over the death of Meaghan Rose, whose body was found at the bottom of a cliff nearly three decades ago.

  • Cloe Read and Clare Sibthorpe
Donald Trump has lost his bid to delay sentencing in his hush money criminal case. He was convicted over falsifying business documents to hide the payment to porn star Stormy Daniels (left).

Supreme Court rejects Trump’s bid to delay sentencing in hush money case

Chief Justice John Roberts and Trump-appointed Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined with the court’s three liberals in rejecting his emergency motion.

  • Lindsay Whitehurst, Michael Hill and Michael R. Sisak
Former president Donald Trump sits in the courtroom for his hush money trial at the Manhattan criminal court

Trump asks Supreme Court to block sentencing in his hush money case in New York

Trump’s lawyers turned to the nation’s highest court after New York courts refused to postpone the sentencing.

  • Farrah Tomazin
Jonathan Charles Bettles, a former senior constable with the NSW Police Force, has admitted to a series of violent assaults against a woman.

‘He knew about the law’: Woman scared to report violent assaults by police officer

Jonathan Charles Bettles told his victim he would always use the fact he was a police officer against her.

  • Sarah McPhee
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An Italian priest is being investigated for manslaughter over the death of a newborn baby left outside the doors of his church.

Priest investigated for manslaughter over death of newborn left on church doorstep

The newborn, believed to be a month old, was found dead on January 2 inside the church’s “thermal cradle”, a device set up for unwanted babies to be left anonymously.

  • Josephine McKenna
Retired Sydney priest Guy Hartcher arrives at Burwood Local Court

Two days before Christmas, ex-priest allegedly wanted sex with boy, 14

Guy Hartcher allegedly sent explicit images and messages to the teenager over seven days, but the boy was not who he thought he was.

  • Clare Sibthorpe
A firefighter at the scene of the blaze at Caulfield Racecourse on Tuesday.

Accused arsonist faces court charged over $1 million Caulfield Racecourse blaze

A 51-year-old alleged firebug has appeared in court after being charged with lighting the blaze that ripped through a grandstand at the heritage-listed Caulfield Racecourse.

  • Melissa Cunningham and Lachlan Abbott
Local government rangers called the RSPCA after they found the cat dead in an esky.

Floreat man charged after neighbour’s cat dies in esky

The man had trapped the cat and then called City of Nedlands rangers to notify them, but when they arrived, the animal was dead.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt

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